English Poetry. John Keats. Dawlish Fair. Джон Китс.

John Keats (Джон Китс)

Dawlish Fair

Over the hill and over the dale,
And over the bourn to Dawlish--
Where gingerbread wives have a scanty sale
And gingerbread nuts are smallish.
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Rantipole Betty she ran down a hill
And kicked up her petticoats fairly;
Says I I'll be Jack if you will be Gill--
So she sat on the grass debonairly.

Here's somebody coming, here's somebody coming!
Says I 'tis the wind at a parley;
So without any fuss any hawing and humming
She lay on the grass debonairly.

Here's somebody here and here's somebody there!
Says I hold your tongue you young Gipsey;
So she held her tongue and lay plump and fair
And dead as a Venus tipsy.

O who wouldn't hie to Dawlish fair,
O who wouldn't stop in a Meadow,
O who would not rumple the daisies there
And make the wild fern for a bed do! 

John Keats’s other poems:

1. Вступление к поэме. Опыт • Specimen of Induction to a Poem
2. Калидор • Calidore
3. Строитель замка • The Castle Builder
4. Поэт • The Poet
5. «Ах, живи ты в век старинный…» • To (“Hadst Thou Liv’d in Days of Old…”)

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